Our month in Malawi was very focused on three different components. One being door to door evangelism and had the joy of seeing a ton of people put their faith in Jesus. Hannah Olsen had a cool chance to sit down with a family who did not even know that God even existed. She had the joy of walking them through the creation story and the Biblical narrative that points towards the cross of Christ. The people were amazed, thankful, and prayed to receive Jesus into their lives. It was really cool. The second component of the month focused in on doing new believers services for the local churches and the final component had to do with leadership training.
As we sat with Antwan our contact in Malawi, it became clear that one of the greatest areas of crisis the church in Malawi is facing is a lack of discipleship and he wanted us taking time to train the Pastors. The Lord began to stir my heart for another two day conference. The last time we ran a leadership conference, it was back in Viile Techi Romania and despite a huge amount of obstacles, the Lord showed in a powerful way. I mentioned the possibility of another two day conference to Antwan and he was thrilled about the opportunity. Through much prayer, we felt led teach on the book of Philippians. It was interesting and originally I pushed back from it a bit. The idea seemed exciting but it had been a little while since I had studied the book and was not sure exactly what to Spirit wanted to say to the leadership of the Malawian churches through it. Yet as I started reading through this beautiful book again, the Lord showed up in some major ways and truth began to flood my mind. Seeing Paul in the worst of situations and writing to the church challenging them to love Jesus with their all, hold to joy in the midst of suffering, look towards an eternal citizenship, clinging to a satisfaction in life that is deeply rooted in Jesus, the necessity of humility, and the call to shine as stars in the universe. Needless to say I was very excited.
The team came together in an awesome way and everyone played such a key role. And so for two days, we poured out truth over these church leaders, most of whom are about as discipled as a high school junior. And the Lord showed up in a powerful way in the lives of these men and women of God.
Hearts were transformed.
Sin was rebuked.
The Cross was lifted up.
Humility was called for.
The Kingdom was proclaimed.
We were able to give Antwan and his team about 700 sermons that would take them a decade to normally download with the internet in Malawi, a digital commentary on every book of the Bible, bunch of digital John Piper books, and much more as a gift as well to help in their efforts to make disciples in the nation. God is doing great thing in Malawi and I got a chance to see some of it very close up.
for God
for People
for the Nations
for the Kingdom
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